On Wed November 14 2007, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > That looks like everything is OK and we are done. Does X start now with > > the nvidia driver? > > no, black screen and I have to alt-F1 for text login. ok, one last time I decided to totally remove the xorg.conf file, and rerun the NVIDIA...run now I have a much more vanilla xorg.conf, and NVIDIA loaded. here is your error output: ~$ egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType". (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) NVIDIA(0): (WW) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" (WW) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode. (WW) NVIDIA(0): ---------------- and mty current xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Wed Sep 12 14:29:35 PDT 2007
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection --------------- note it now doesn't recognize my Dell monitor or the model of the NVIDIA card.. but it does load the NVIDIA driver.. go figure. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]